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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.

Thomas Carlyle

Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Big Ideas Mindset Original Place State
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Beginning Heart Knowledge Love One Liner
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Angry Destroy Irritation
There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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Act Kind Possible Recognition
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Deep Head Heart See
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Beginning Deep Moments
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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Flow Heart Joy Kindness Laughter True
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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Better Man Talk Wasted Yourself
They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Deep Knowledge Man Wisdom
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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Person Progress Purpose Road Rough
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Action Wasted Time Worth
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Ambition Boredom Greatness Myself
He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Forever Himself Hold On Time Vision
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Generosity Himself Live Man Way World
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Book Collection Deep Greatness Knowledge Reading Teacher

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